just taking a break over summer...can't guarantee i'll be here everyday so i thought there wasn't much sense in continuing
will be back here in a number of weeks...anybody who wants to post a headline that they think is interesting...please feel free

A family who were illegally living in Canada tried applying for refugee status. They claimthat their lives are in danger if they are deported to their home country. Canada just deported them earlier today (family included 13 and 4 year old kids).

Sad story, but other people say that they deserve it for living here illegally. It's hard to say where exactly to draw the line on deportations since I'm sure everyone in that situation has their own story.

Sad news over the weekend, as a pedestrian was killed after he was struck by the Cash Cab in Vancouver.

The Associated Press, New York Daily News and Vancouver Sun detail a 61-year-old man from Surrey, B.C., died shortly after being struck down in the Downtown Eastside neighbourhood late Friday night.

Andrew Burnstein, president of Castlewood Productions, which is the company behind Cash Cab, relayed the accident occurred as a producer — not funny man host Adam Growe — was driving the fake cab back to a storage facility for the night after filming a segment for the Canadian game show.

“Our thoughts and prayers are with the victim and his friends and family,” Burnstein told The Vancouver Sun. “My heart also goes out to the driver of the vehicle, a member of our technical staff, who was shaken and devastated by this tragic accident, as is our entire team.”

No charges have been filed, but the accident is under investigation.

In Cash Cab, unsuspecting fares enter the car, where they become part of a trivia game show where they can win a growing pot of money on the way to their destination, or get booted out prematurely if they get three questions wrong.

not that the news of the world hacking scandal was lacking in drama, but things got downright crazy today with brooks denying paying off police and a protester rushing at murdoch with a pie only to take a right hook from muroch's much younger wife:

i don't remember you mentioning that. i'm just making an association between the two because, although they are quite different in terms of the public persona, both represent one of the most vile kinds of populist 'journalism'.

well, they're both physically attractive as well, of course, so that was part of the connection. but i can't 'do' someone for whom i have no respect. i'm weird that way. i need to like someone first - or at least not dislike them.